"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."
-- Linus van Pelt in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Thursday, May 01, 2008

More Odds and Ends

This is a lot of important stuff that I'm too busy to tackle today, so here's a big roundup...

Today is the fifth anniversary of the 'Mission Accomplished' ceremony on that battleship out at sea in the San Diego bay. "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended," said the President. Have they ever! And the surge is working! This week, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino came up with a new retroactive explanation for the ceremony (they were just trying to salute the sailors!), stating "we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner." You know who else paid a price? All the people killed because of this war! But yea, I imagine this is real rough for George too.

Fair and balanced trials coming soon to Gitmo: "The former chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals testified on Monday that the tribunals were tainted by political influence and evidence obtained through prisoner abuse... He said the pressure ramped up after 'high-value' prisoners with alleged ties to the September 11 plot were moved to Guantanamo from secret CIA custody shortly before the 2006 U.S. congressional elections and amid the ongoing U.S. presidential campaigns."

Judiciary Branch to Executive Branch... do something for a change, please: "A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to decide within 16 days whether polar bears should be listed as a threatened species because of global warming."

And in North Carolina, a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing voter turnout was traced back to a group called Women's Voices Women Vote. Does that group have Clinton ties? Who cares, the media won't investigate!